Wrongful Conviction Movies

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a...

Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in order to pay for his sister's medical expenses. Soon,...

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick...

Fighting to prove his innocence, Andrew Malkinson tells the shocking story of how he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a horrific...

Sung, a renowned solicitor in China, has everything that a man could ask for except a son. The problem wasn't that his wife could not bear him a son...

In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to...

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.

A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true...

A convicted murderer holds the world hostage with a year 2000 virus in all the world's major computer systems.

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a...

A wrongly convicted father comes home after thirteen years in prison to discover that his real battle is building a relationship with his daughter.

Five friends are picked up as suspects in a political murder, and the cops detain one among them to save face in front of the media. To save him, the...

Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless...

This documentary recalled the terrible murder of Michelangelo and Maria, an eight-year-old father and daughter, who were murdered after receiving a...

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The...

The story of David Robinson’s nearly eighteen-year struggle to prove his innocence and the devastating effects wrongful convictions have on not...